SEATTLE ― Seattle Presbytery is holding its annual “PresbyFest,” Jan. 28 at Mercer Island Presbyterian Church.
The event features keynote speaker the Rev. Bruce Reyes-Chow, moderator of the 2008 General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.). Workshop leaders include the Rev. Jeff Keuss, a theologian, author and speaker who teaches at the School of Theology of Seattle Pacific University; the Rev. Dean Strong, stated clerk of North Puget Sound Presbytery, who will talk about the new Form of Government; and Julia Thorne, manager for immigration issues in the Office of the General Assembly.
EVERETT, Wash.― Twenty-three members and friends of First Presbyterian Church of Everett in North Puget Sound Presbytery will travel to Haiti to help build a playground for H.I.S. Home for Children.
H.I.S Home For Children is an interdenominational Christian ministry created in 1999 to care for orphaned and abandoned children in Haiti.
The ministry includes 35 full-time staff members who administer three homes with approximately 125 kids ages birth to 16. Some of the children are orphans, but many have been abandoned to the home by a single parent who is unable to provide for them due to extreme poverty. …
The Rev. Tosu Sinkaman from the Tayal Presbytery of the Presbyterian Church in Taiwan will be in Yukon Presbytery from mid-August until mid-November as part of the presbyteries’ partnership.
He will spend several weeks in the Aywaan Parish, working alongside the Nome, Gambell and Savoonga Presbyterian Churches. He will attend the October Presbytery meeting before traveling north to spend several weeks with the churches of the Ahmaogak-Akootchook Memorial Parish ― Chapel in the Mountains (Anaktuvuk Pass), Atqasuk, Olgonik (Wainwright), Utqiagvik (Barrow), Kuukpik (Nuiqsut) and Kaktovik.